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A very fresh AC44 rebuild from Ft. Worth, TX leading M352 across the Indiana Sub on a clear morning. My good friend & I were headed down to the Indiana Sub & heard M352 was coming and we waited and were nicely surprised by an actual decent leader, which we were able to chase all the way to Cincy across the Indiana Sub in good light. Not an easy task to get both a good leader & good light all the way across!
L106 shakes up the quiet coastal atmosphere of eastern Dundalk with it’s large train bound for Tradepoint Atlantic’s Greys Yard. This angle on the northeast side of the bridge has remained undocumented, but motivations to get the right side of the sun got me down to the water here. A nice low-numbered YN2 AC44 to compliment as well.
Train: CSXT L106 with CSXT 32 (CW44AH), CSXT 7038 (CM44AH)
CSXT Sparrows Point Industrial Track
Dundalk, Maryland
I137 is beginning to pull it’s first cut of cars out of Seagirt to double up on the second cut seen on the right. In the background is Baltimore’s Marine Terminals headquarters, one of the last original standing structures here in East Baltimore. Structures like this are becoming increasingly uncommon with the development of warehouses and trucking depots in this area.
Train: CSXT I137 with CSXT 38 (CW44AH), CSXT (CM44AH)
CSX Seagirt Marine Terminal
Baltimore, Maryland
They have taken too much from us. When will it stop
Train: CSXT T621 with CSXT 7258 (CM44AH) and CSXT 3010 (ES44AC-H).
CSX Willard Sub
Deshler, OH
M352 continuing their trek across the Indiana Sub towards Cincy. This train ran in good light all the way across.
It’s business as usual along US Hwy 23 as a pair of CSX AH’s grind through Speers Ferry, Virginia on NS’s Appalachia District with 45 fresh loads of Eastern Kentucky’s finest bound for Tennessee Eastman.
Spring in Appalachia is in full swing as a pair of AH’s muscle C090-01 through beautiful Olinger, Virginia with 45 loads for Tennessee Eastman; loaded at Creech by R615 the night before.
October 22, 2020: A rebuilt CM44AH Ge engine leads loaded CSX Coal Train N904 (Evansville, IN-Cross, SC) Southbound over the old Western & Atlantic Subdivision, seen here passing what was once the train station site for the old town of Cassville just outside of Cartersville, GA.
Rebuilt CM44AH 7258 is seen leading a Jersey bound stack train as it skirts the banks of the Hudson River in Fort Montgomery, NY. The train is running on former New York Central trackage.
CSX R283, an extra McClure mine run called out of Shelby, rolls through the control point at Caney just prior to the Mcclure switch.
One couldn’t ask for a more beautiful day in Western North Carolina as CSXT 148 South leads rebuild ballast train W362-27 across Clinchfield’s 811’ long Catawba River Viaduct, high over Lake James.
August 27, 2025.
Beginning its climb of Brookfield Hill, CSX CM44AH 7218, a newly-rebuilt unit, leans into the curves at Elm Grove, Wisconsin with empty westbound tanks on CP's Watertown Sub.
A seven-engine CSX M542 clears Paris control point as it closes in on its final destination of Cincinnati. Paris is one of a dwindling number of ex-L&N control points with distinctive oval searchlights. The L&N, along with the C&NW, was among the only railroads to install searchlight signals in this style, possibly because of the road's previous usage of US&S N-series signals.
CSX local L839-13 glides across the Alcovy Trestle between Covington and Social Circle, GA. Leading the charge are a pair of rebuilt AC44s.
December has arrived, meaning we're nearing the end of 2020, though the madness might continue for some time.
But, lower "winter" sun makes for a brilliant blue sky, just need something good to go with it.
Enter U-CXZEFV0-58T, an empty crude oil train headed west to fill up, led by a trio of CSX GEs.
Usually, I'm not a fan of the Yn3 & Yn3b CSX scheme, even in sunlight as it ages bad and just doesn't look that good, (Yn2 all the way), however, a clean rebuilt isn't all that bad.
Almost missed this one but I got the shot.
CSXT 7220 - GE CM44AH (AC44CWM)
CSXT 5378 - GE ES40DC
CSXT 5372 - GE ES40DC
Fresh out of rebuild at Erie, CSXT CM44AH 7227 idles on the “Lowe’s” Track at Kingsport Yard as the moon moves across the winter sunrise.
Behind it, sits transfer caboose L&N 6630, now renumbered to CSXT 16630. The cab was assigned to Erwin before coming to Kingsport.
This locomotive started life in September 1996 as CSXT CW44AC 226 and served a fair amount of time on Clinchfield rails.
An Evansville Western crew is bringing this CSX empty coal train closer to it's destination after picking it up from CSX at Evansville, IN. Destination is Sugar Camp Mine west of McLeansboro, IL. EVWR is operated "North / South" although they run more "East / West". The train is on a 12-mile branch from the mainline just northwest of McLeansboro (MP 12) down to the mine (MP 0) and is TWC. This nice set of curves is at MP 8. Once this empty got to the mine, another CSX powered train was loaded and ready to go.
10-12-2025
200 McClure empties rattle over the crossovers at Johns Creek behind an ES44AH and a recently overhauled CM44AH.
It wont be long now before these classic search lights fall to new safe trans or some other junk. CSX is actively laying bore pipe, and putting in new bases between Lansing and East End Williamston.
After having signal issues in Brownstown, L452 makes there way east through by milepost 92 on the west end of the Indiana Sun in the early morning fog.
L452-18 (Mitchell, IN - Cincinnati, OH)
CSXT 7246 CM44AH
CSXT ****
Clean meets clean as train M523 scoots past train M602 in the siding at Canoe, Alabama. Leading M523 is a newly rebuilt CM44AH, number 7281, while heading up 602 is the Family Lines System heritage unit, ES44AH number 1972, on its very first trip at the head of a train. For all the flaws of the CSX heritage units, I gotta say, this thing looked pretty nice without a speck of dirt on that new paint.
As the light fades for the day, a clean CSX CM44AH 7225 is leading Q038 past the former Seaboard depot in Matthews, NC on the Charlotte Sub.
Fog lingers around the Kentucky River as CSX B437 (empty rock hoppers for Mount Vernon) splits the searchlights at Ford.
Q58326 heads southbound past the Lhoist plant in Anderson, TN., with CSXT 7233, 4025, 9012 & 5346 as they approach the Alabama state line just a couple hundred feet ahead of them. There journey in Alabama will be short lived as not far down the road, the Chattanooga Sub makes a sharp left and heads
towards its namesake city.
Dwarfed by the snow capped Unaka Mountains, empty Brice coal train E407-11 makes it’s way through Hannum in beautiful evening light.
A CSX local passes the connecting track at the Plant City diamonds as it heads west to Uceta Yard in Tampa. Both engines are part of a program testing soybean oil-based fuel, which has reportedly cut emissions by 20%.
A pair of brand new rebuilt CM44AHs are seen leading M491 through Charlotte, NC on a cloudy January afternoon. I'm sure the crew was thrilled to be running long hood forward at restricted speed over the multiple crossings down the Charlotte Sub.
January 30, 2020: A newly rebuilt engine now labeled as a CM44AH unit, leads loaded coal hopper train CSX T305 (Corbin, KY-Cross, SC) down the W&A Subdivision at Emerson, GA with just enough sunlight left to snap a pic.
Just after leaving Corbin, KY, CSX train R614 rolls passed the still standing searchlight signals at Siler, KY.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 has dropped their train on Main 1 and ducked light engine into the west end of Track 3 and are in the process of picking up their outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange.
They are just east of the Fourth Street underpass at about MP QB149.6 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light while the last remaining building from the once massive former GE plastics plant looms in the background.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
CN 327 is passing a switch point indicator that lets approaching trains know if the switch is lined for the main or for the siding. Power is CSXT 472, CSXT7216, CN 8922 & CN 8837.
A flying Q017 with Csx 3194 flys by Tiffin making it from there to Deshler in just 45 minutes.
Csxt 3194 ES44AH
Csxt 7230 CM44AH
Early CSX M416-04 heads west on 1 at 5:36pm though Georgetown Junction passing Silver Spring Maryland with 3 Gevos on the headend and one Rebuild CM44AH doing rear dpu.
Taken: June 4, 2023
Ongoing reconstruction of the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore has led to some interesting detours. Loaded coal trains from locations such as Grafton, WV have been detouring to Baltimore along a circuitous route via Buffalo and Selkirk, NY. Here loaded coal train C733 snakes through Bound Brook, NJ on the Lehigh Line. It's been a long time since coal traffic traversed the former Lehigh Valley main. Under Conrail, loaded coal trains to power plants along the River Line traveled east through here. Now the loads are westbound and empties run east. We'll enjoy the show as long as it lasts.
CSX C733:
CSXT 7244 CM44AC
CSXT 7380 CM44AH
A fresh CSX CM44AH rebuild knocks down the CPL's at South Deshler with a NB Manifest on the Toledo Sub.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 rounds the bend on Main 1 as they come out from beneath the East Street / Route 9 overpass right at MP 147 (note the milepost partially obscured at right) on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light as they pull down so they can go pick up the outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange traffic off the west end of Track 3.
Looming beyond is the the last remaining building from the once massive former GE plastics plant. General Electric was once the dominant industry in town dating all the way back to 1903 when when it purchased the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co., which had been established in Pittsfield in 1890. In addition to its plastics division, GE manufactured transformers in town and operated an aerospace division. At its peak during the 1940s, the GE plant employed 13,000 people - in a city of just about 50,000!
The transformer division shut down by 1987 and took 2000 jobs with it, followed by the sale of aerospace to Lockheed Martin leaving only about 500 employees working for the plastics division. That last operation was closed and the remains sold off in 2005 and since that time many of the buildings on the 324 acre site have been removed, and for the past two decades GE has been working to clean and remediate the area from decades of PCB contamination. In fact I thought this scene looked different from the last time I photographed off this bridge and turns out I was right: flic.kr/p/2nqsYeE
In addition to being a major employer it was once a huge rail customer though today what little trackage remains on the property is rusty and unused and there is so little rail served industry left that CSXT has long since abolished their last local freight crew in town.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
Rebuilt CSX CW44AC 366 is rolling through Linworth, OH with a unit grain train on the Columbus Subdivision
ust after a spring rain shower passed through, a pair of AC44CW rebuilds are rolling through Matthews, NC on the Charlotte sub with Florida bound I037
Fresh CM44AH rebuild #7570 leads 2 SD70s on CSX train M692 as they pass through Brush Creek Tunnel on the former Clinchfield.
The lighting sucked, but this was the first of the CM44AC rebuilds I've been able to catch on CSX. Seen here leading Q329 approaching Shaffer Ave with a boring DC Gevo (thankfully) trailing.
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The last shot to post of 2023 is also the first shot I took of 2023. On a cloudy & rainy New Year's Day, CSX CM44AH 7244 is heading through Stallings, NC with a manifest as it passes the Berry Global plant.